Always enjoy your takes mang. They're insightful and well thought out. The reworks were very unpopular. I remember being in the discord channel at the time and it was the vibe there and here. DC decided to do 2 of the 3 and then left the last one hanging which was a mistake IMO. The art changes as they stand are jarring to watch when playing, especially for such a prominent character. Should have just knocked it all out. Now I think it won't get done until the very end which is sad but it's a democracy. You win some you lose some.Debbie, Diane and Mrs. Johnson do suffer because by now there are so many alternatives present, like Maria, Tina, Consuela, Melonia, Crystal, etc. with quite a few more to come (like Mrs. Smith, Lucy or Jackie for example). Thus they have to share the attention, which wasn't really the case at the start.
Last but not least one has to consider that the reworks were never that popular. As mentioned in the posts before, Debbie's update will certainly be painful, given that most of the time will spent on reworking content that's already known. So we'll wait months and months and in the the end it'll still feel like there's very little new content. I'd say that's another reason why people didn't vote for her story in these more recent story polls.